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by skylan_q 11y ago
You have to realize that Iran is threatened by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia. I won't be surprised when they break this deal and have their own nuclear weapons.
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Short positions themselves provide a signal as to whether market participants believe the price to be too high. Giving the opportunity to short thus keeps downward pressure on prices. Although I'm not entirely sure why there was a sudd
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Forgiving all the debt to Greece causes a worldwide financial collapse. Greece's debt was restructured to be drawn out into longer payment terms at a lower interest rate and at a reduced principal to be fair to them and to prevent a fi
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The stock market is up 35% since March. I don't understand what's being reported.
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There's also confounding variables to take into account. One of those might not be driving the other. Many commenters above are speaking about how hard it is to eject someone out of a bias, but I don't know why they're doing
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Altera and Intel already have a fab agreement and Intel is desperate to get customers into their mothballed fabs. If they can't get customers into them, they can get their own products made in them.
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I like how you can easily miss this part: You have to slow down the creation of money, they explained. It's as if it wasn't instrumental when in actuality, it's the entire reason why inflation stopped.
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I'd say this is a joke, but you've got a caveat. Since you're being serious, I'm even more concerned. The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy organization based in Madison,
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What's the best practice on dealing with this problem? Just don't be naive. How should one inform oneself and decide on how much time to spend on cross-checking communications for these conscious or unconscious biases and influ
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No, they aren't. But they don't need to be. Just because they aren't directly controlled on paper by the US gov't, it doesn't mean that they aren't just a tool for US gov't propaganda. Distrust of the medi
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I'm not surprised. I was about to say "What else would you expect from NPR?" People need to start realizing that journalism as reporting is dead and it's now journalism as consumption and thought control. Some further re
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It's a great read that actually gets you to understand how money came to be, in a theoretical sense. The book the other poster suggests is more about the history of money and monetary phenomena.
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The company is willing to hire such a manager. So you've got to ask yourself, would you want anything other than termination from this environment? Either way things can't go back to the way they were. You're either getting f
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Pretty much this. And if they don't follow through/follow up on this, the problem will get much bigger.
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I've got the same problem with my Radeon 6950
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But it's a mistake to assume that just because network signals are electrical, any electrician is automatically qualified to put a network together. This can't be stressed enough, especially when running horizontal cabling throu
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They want someone to blame for not being able to watch Game of Thrones in HD or for fear of having to pay extra to continue doing so. Providers who fell in between the eyeballs and the content got in the crosshairs. This is really "Gam
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Nick responds directly to that graph: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/feamster/why-your-netflix...
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I don't think anyone argues against the notion that substituting a basic income in place of complicated payment/handout/welfare schemes is more efficient.
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"bitchy software engineer. doing what i can to smash the patriarchy." Doesn't HR vet self-proclaimed troublemakers anymore, or is it OK to hire anti-establishment people as long as they're of the right flavor? If I had &
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Are you saying that people would go to school to be math teachers and say "teach me the math I need to teach my students"? This is how teachers in Ontario (who avearge around $75k/year) learn how to teach math. As long as e
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The resources that are available geared specifically toward the improvement of education have been allocated more towards girls and less towards boys than they were in the past. As a result, the academic performce of girls has improved rela
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Sounds like the ABCT to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory Sounds to me like printing money and pumping it into finance leads to an unsustainible economy.
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...the problem is clearly about tyranny, dictatorship and misuse of power? Every government devolves to this so it's unavoidable/unchangeable without widespread revolution. If the battle can't be won in a widespread fashion
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Well they regulate radio. I agree, they regulate a bunch of stuff. I suppose that's a carte blanche to regulate anything it sees itself fit to regulate?
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They're not changing what the Internet is, only how it's provided. They don't realize the way that the Internet is provided is the essence of the Internet itself.
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You're calling it a utility. I guess you're just going to define it a utility, ham sandwhich is also a utility.
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It delivers more than just bytes. It's communication in different forms for different purposes. On the other hand, when water is delivered it's the same water here or there.
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I have a sinking feeling that all this will result in is a situation where monopolies are given out to the existing players and no one is forced to do anything to upgrade the existing service. It's naive to think it would be anything
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I don't understand how people can disagree with this. He's perfectly correct. How often does one cite the price of cigarettes to quit smoking them?

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